ps: Thanks to the book friend A Big Dream for the 5,000 starting coins!
Woohoo, I'm so touched that there are book friends who are willing to reward me. I'm sorry for you.
........
"That is a special commission, issued by a big shot in the city. The content is that the master and I are required to eliminate a void earth worm active in the border forest of Freymures."
"I didn't think much about it at the time. I never thought that the earthworm would be the one that helped me escape from the laboratory when I was a child."
"My master and I made some preparations and found it from a damp cave after two months of investigation."
"It's really powerful. The enchanted armor-piercing arrows that my master and I prepared in advance to break through its armor have no effect."
"Because we were in a cave and we couldn't use explosives, we had to fight and retreat, and finally retreated outside."
"Wait a minute." Knight Myron frowned and said, "If the enchanted armor-piercing arrows can't penetrate the exoskeleton of this earthworm, I don't think the explosives will be of much use."
For this world, gunpowder is a new thing. Although many people are interested in this kind of powder that will explode as long as it is ignited, it was abandoned by the nobles because its effect was much worse than magic.
.
In fact, in addition to being much less effective than magic, gunpowder also has problems such as being too dangerous and unstable, and most importantly.
For the nobles, it was not a good thing for ordinary people to have the power to resist, so the research and development of gunpowder was terminated.
It was not until later that the eldest son of a noble family successfully made gorgeous fireworks that reminded people of this thing again, and then made explosives that could blow up mountains.
However, the power of this kind of explosive is not high compared to modern technology. If it is armor that cannot be penetrated by enchanted arrows, this kind of explosive will not be effective.
When Charles heard Myron's words, he shook his head and said: "The purpose of explosives is not to blow open the armor, but to paralyze the earthworms."
"Because they live underground all year round, the ground worms' vision has degraded to the point where they can barely see objects. Their only means of hunting down prey is their sense of smell and excellent hearing."
"Especially hearing."
Charley paused, and then continued: "According to the findings of some scholars, earthworms almost never appear during thunderstorms, because the huge thunder will shatter their eardrums."
"The same goes for explosives. As long as the distance is close enough, the sound of the explosion can instantly confuse the Earthworm's brain and cause it to lose its hearing."
"That's it." Knight Myron touched his chin and said.
Seeing that Knight Myron had no doubts, Char continued: "At that time, we lured the earthworms out of the cave and detonated a huge amount of explosives as planned."
"As a result, the plan changed because our act of detonating explosives triggered an avalanche..."
"We know that there will be a certain probability of an avalanche after detonating explosives, but there is no way. Even the enchanted arrows cannot penetrate its armor. We can only try to use explosives."
"Later, after the avalanche, my master and I climbed out of the snow and found the groundworm that had not been buried in the snow because it had been struggling. We planned to give it a final blow."
"My master and I waited for more than two hours until it was exhausted. We walked over and aimed our armor-piercing arrows at its eyes..."
"Logically speaking." Charley paused, his voice a little heavy.
"That earthworm has lost its hearing and its brain is in a state of confusion. It is impossible to detect that Master and I are approaching it."
"But the moment we were about to attack, the earth insect moved and opened its huge mouth to swallow me."
"I didn't react for a moment, and when I was about to be swallowed, it was the master who saved me, and then..."
There is no need to say more about the rest, Char's meaning has been made very clear.
His master, the Pope's father, died in the mouth of the void earth worm because he was trying to save Char.
It is unknown how Char escaped from the mouth of the earth worm, or how the earth worm escaped from Char's mouth.
"Afterwards, I searched for the place where the earth worm disappeared for a long time, and I kept asking people to help me keep an eye on the other party's news."
"But what's unexpected is that no matter how hard I look for it, the ground worm seems to have disappeared."
"It is a creature contaminated by the void, and its size is so conspicuous. As long as it is still active, there is no news about it, but I just can't find it."
"I have thought it was dead all these years, but I didn't expect it to appear in front of me again today."
Charles sighed, his eyes full of complicated expressions.
"Could you have seen it wrong?" The Pope raised his eyebrows and said, "That was more than forty years ago. Can that earthworm really live for so long?"
"Maybe." Char shook his head, and then said: "Anyway, I have found the creature contaminated by the void you are looking for."
"I will track down that guy later, and then I will train for Her Royal Highness the Princess."
No matter what happened to that earth worm, the Pope today is one of the strongest men standing at the top of the world, and beside the Pope there is the equally powerful Knight Myron.
In front of these two strong men, the earth insect was nothing more than an ant that could be easily crushed to death.
........
"Is that void earth worm the experimental subject you released?"
In the city of Freimures, in a dimly lit room, No. 3, wearing a noble robe, looked at his subordinates and said.
"Yes, sir, in order to lure out the authorized hunter, I specially selected the experimental subject."
No. 3's subordinate said as he took out a file from his arms and handed it to the other party.
"..."
Number Three took the file and read it carefully.
"Authorized hunter Char, 64 years old, blessed by the Holy Tree [Apocalypse], professional level 4, once searched for earth insect experimental subjects with his master, and failed in the process of hunting the experimental subjects, resulting in the death of his master.
"
"Afterwards, I inspected the Earth Insect Experimental Subjects many times to no avail..."
"Not bad." No. 3 nodded with satisfaction and praised.
"Hurry up and get rid of this guy. The authorized hunter's sense of smell is still very sensitive. Don't let him discover what we are doing."
Because No. 2 was pressing harder, No. 3 had recently tried hard to collect blood stones, but because No. 2 wanted too much, he had to think of other ways.
Previously, people from a village near the royal capital were quietly sacrificed. Later, due to the attack on Her Royal Highness, the number of guards there increased sharply.
There is no other way, No. 3 can only choose to come to this relatively remote place to think of a solution.
"Well...as long as the people from these four towns are sacrificed, all the blood stones requested by No. 2 will be obtained."
Number 3 looked at the four small towns that were close together on the map with a very cold expression. An x was drawn on the map, which was the hut where Charles lived.
As long as he dies in a deserted place for ten days and a half, there is no need to worry about anyone running away when the Guiji Cult takes action. They will have enough time to convert their blood energy into sufficient blood stones...
....
ps: The moment the Pope possessed the talent of [Psychic], his information had been sealed internally as a secret, so No. 3 did not know that Char’s master was the Pope’s father.
The itinerary of the Pope and His Royal Highness the Princess is also confidential, so No. 3 did not know that the Princess and the Pope came to Frémures.